page_title: Eric Johnson (Texas politician)
section_title: Service in the Texas Legislature
hierarchical_section_title: Eric Johnson (Texas politician) / Service in the Texas Legislature
caption_attribution_description: English: Transparency Committee Member Eric Johnson (Dem/Dallas)
context_page_description: Eric Lynn Johnson is an American politician and lawyer currently serving as the 60th Mayor of Dallas, Texas since 2019. He previously served as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, where he represented District 100 in the cities of Dallas and Mesquite, Texas.
context_section_description: Johnson was sworn in as a member of the Texas House of Representatives on April 20, 2010, filling the vacant seat that he won in a special election. He was reelected, after running uncontested, in the November elections of 2010 and 2012. He also won reelection in 2014, 2016, and 2018.
  Johnson founded, and served as the chairman of, the Young Texans Legislative Caucus (YTLC), which focuses on transportation, education, water, infrastructure, and other issues of interest to younger Texans. YTLC is open to Texas state representatives who are either under the age of 40 or represent a district that has a population under 40 that is greater than the state average of 58%. He is also the vice chairman of both the House Natural Resources Committee and the House General Investigating and Ethics Committee, and was the only member of the 83rd Texas Legislature to serve as vice chairman of two standing house committees. Johnson also serves on the House Elections Committee, the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, and the Joint House and Senate Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency.  He has previously served on the House Committees on Appropriations, Higher Education, and the Interim Committee on Manufacturing.
  Johnson has authored legislation that ensures that vacancies in the Texas Legislature are filled in a timely manner, requires Texas courts to inform defendants being sentenced to deferred adjudication of their right to an order of nondisclosure, enables the Dallas Independent School District to implement a pilot program that allows some students to graduate in three years, and that adds public and private institutions of higher education to the list of places where reporting a false bomb threat is a state jail felony. In addition, he was a joint author of the landmark water legislation passed during the 83rd Texas Legislature, House Bill 4, that will fund the State Water Plan. Upon becoming Mayor of Dallas, Johnson vacated House District 100 seat, and his successor will be determined in a special election.
  Committee assignments by legislative session:
  81st (2010)
  Criminal Jurisprudence
  Corrections
  82nd (2011)
  Appropriations
  Higher Education
  Interim Committee on Manufacturing
  House and Senate Joint Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency
  83rd (2013)
  Elections
  General Investigating and Ethics (Vice Chair)
  Natural Resources (Vice Chair)
  Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations
  House and Senate Joint Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency
  84th (2015)
  Homeland Security and Public Safety
  Economic and Small Business Development (Vice Chair)
  Calendars
  85th (2017)
  Ways and Means
  Investments and Financial Services
  Redistricting (Vice Chair)
  Select Committee on State and Federal Power and Responsibility
caption: Johnson in October 2014
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